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    The Color Purple   The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ discusses abuse‚racism‚ poverty‚ sexcism‚  and opression. The book focuses on Celie‚ a 14 year old girl who has been sexually and  physically abused by her stepfather‚ and later by her husband‚ Albert. Celie has grown up with  her sister‚ Nettie‚ and has protected her from the abuse that she received from their own father  and from being married to Albert. Albert never really wanted to marry Celie‚ he originally wanted  Nettie‚ but couldn’t have her because their father said no

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    present is a made thing‚ not something born. (Chapter 12 line 25)” Here Offred talks about totally disregarding herself by play the role of a handmaid to avoid the consequences of disobedience. Just like Celie and most of the female characters in The Color Purple‚ Offred and the reds in The Handmaids Tale are not treated as individuals with independent selves‚ but as tools to benefit the male’s need for power and control. In both Novels the authors choose to group the women into different social

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    normal consequence of her anxiety of males after her catastrophic rapes from her stepfather then her harsh treatment of Mr.__ which we can understand throughout the book and indeed Celie develops who she is because of Shug. Slomski‚ Genevieve. "The Color Purple." Masterplots‚ Fourth Edition (2010): 1-3. Literary Reference Center. Web. 29 Feb. 2016. Some problems of racism‚ sexism‚ and violence. From the beginning where Celie is in abject despair to at the end where it ends in joy when Nettie and her

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    to Wikipedia‚ the American dream is defined as a national ethos of the United States of America‚ a set of ideals in which freedom includes opportunity for prosperity and success and an upward mobility achieved through hard work. Individual perspectives and definitions of the American dream differ. Most see it as home ownership others especially the immigrants see it an opportunity they never had in their home countries at prosperity. I personally would define the American dream as an opportunity

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    "The American Dream" The American Dream is the idea for any person‚ no matter race‚ color‚ or creed to become wealthy in a society by hard work and dedication. The idea starts when you’re a child if you see your parents working and earning a living. The idea absorbs in the child’s head to do good in life‚ so he can succeed and do the same things as them. It all starts when you are 22 coming out of college. During those four years of college you choice your career and hopefully adept to

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    The Color Purple is a biased‚ unbalanced view into the life of black women during the early to mid-nineteen hundreds. While it is obvious that a woman who in her own right is racist‚ chauvinist‚ and ignorant to the way that the world really works wrote the novel‚ it has been requested that the class write a paper on the story. Whilst this writer does not agree with this novel or anything that Alice Walker thinks or feels‚ obligingly this paper is been written. The Color Purple and the Joy Luck Club

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    page of The Color Purple‚ the reader encounters strong words and difficult concepts. The book unfolds into a series of letters from Celie to her sister Nettie‚ as well as some diary entries. The book talks mostly about Celie’s life. We learn that in the beginning of the novel Celie is raped by her father. Another thing we learn is that Celie’s mother is ill and therefor is unable to care for her family. Celie‚ the narrator‚ is a poor and uneducated‚ 14 year-old African American girl. Throughout

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    The novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker‚ follows the story of an African-American woman named Celie‚ and her friends and family through her diary entries. The story takes place in rural Georgia‚ in the early 20th century‚ all playing a part in much of the mistreatment she faces. The readers learn the tough life that Celie has endured‚ from being raped at a young age by her step father‚ to never being treated with respect by anyone‚ not even her husband‚ Mr._______‚ whom rapes‚ beats‚ and degrades

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    The Color Purple‚ by Alice Walker‚ was so impactful it was awarded the Pulitzer prize. Alice Walker does an incredible job of creating a realness living in the south during a segregated time and the hardship of being a black woman in the early 1900’s. A few years later a movie was made and was directed by Steven Spielberg‚ who brought the movie to life‚ Whoopi Goldberg is transformed as she plays Celie and lives in the south during the early 1900’s. The Hollywood’s perception of the Color Purple

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    Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals‚ as well as those African-American women outside. She provides the work of Black feminist thinkers‚ Angela Davis who was an American political activist‚ Alice Walker who wrote the book “The Colour Purple‚” and Audre Lorde an American writer and civil rights activist. Although the book focused on the black feminist thought of intellectuals and activists‚ the author believed‚ that those experiences and perspectives of

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